“América with an Accent,” one of the stories from my unpublished novel, just went live in Litro Magazine. It’s about a Venezuelan refugee as she navigates survival in the US during Trump I.  

The Air Beneath Her Feet, my unpublished novel, is the 2025 PEN/America Bare Life Review Grant Winner. This is what the judges said:

It is a story that pulses with urgency, refusing to be merely an intellectual or artistic exercise – it bears witness to the prolonged survival of the displaced. The work’s commitment to language as a cultural anchor is particularly striking. This decision speaks to the power of language as both a claim to identity and an act of resistance against erasure, offering a raw and unflinching look at the realities of displacement in a world where true safety remains elusive.

I’m still looking for a gutsy agent and a publisher (hint, hint, hint).

Read the first chapter of the novel “Escuderos” in River Styx; the name sake chapter, “The Air Beneath Her Feet” in the Write Launch;  and “Four Faces” in Sequestrum.